what is your latest pipe purchase

[Haebar]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/L-L-BEAN-Fre...p2047675.l2557

Paid too much for it, but I was buying the nostalgia, not the pipe. As a young man living in Maine, before LL Bean reinvented itself as a urban hipster's clothing boutique, I spent many hours browsing the high end fishing gear and drooling over the natural wood Old Town canoes that I would never be able to own. I remember the creaky wooden floors and the aroma of pipe smoke and the stories and advice the salesmen would offer as they puffed on something aromatic. I would dream of piloting one of those beautiful canoes around Moosehead Lake and catching trout with one of the hand made fly rods that were displayed there, before leaving with my purchase of Eagle Claw hooks and a bottle of mosquito repellent.

I used to have an L.L. Bean pipe. If I'm not mistaken, it is made like a Smokemaster pipe where you can use a pipe cleaner for a filter. Is yours like that? They still carried them in the early nineties, but they didn't put them in the catalogs. You had to call them and ask for the pipes.

[Pugsley]

I used to have an L.L. Bean pipe. If I'm not mistaken, it is made like a Smokemaster pipe where you can use a pipe cleaner for a filter. Is yours like that? They still carried them in the early nineties, but they didn't put them in the catalogs. You had to call them and ask for the pipes.

I haven't received the pipe yet, but I'll let you know when I get it. I've heard of those that use the pipe cleaner and this could very well be one as the metal tube in the stem looks to be offset. But, never having seen one, that's just a guess.

[Pugsley]

I used to have an L.L. Bean pipe. If I'm not mistaken, it is made like a Smokemaster pipe where you can use a pipe cleaner for a filter. Is yours like that? They still carried them in the early nineties, but they didn't put them in the catalogs. You had to call them and ask for the pipes.

Received the pipe today and it is the type that uses a pipe cleaner as a filter. Interesting concept and once I get it cleaned up I'll have to try that.